Actually, I am "jumping ship into retirement" in a "scant few weeks;" but then I
came of professional age in the 1960s (arrgghhh!) Naturally legacies have been
on my mind, and I think we need a mentoring program. If each of us would try to
identify, nurture and mentor one younger media person we could at least "keep
the flame alive."
Sally Mason Robinson

Quoting Gary Handman <ghandman@library.berkeley.edu>:

> So, if we're all jumping ship in scant few years, who's gonna mind the > media store?> > This could, indeed, be an interesting thread of discussion. Seriously. It > seems to me that, despite the enormous impact media has had on global > culture at large, despite the fact that media collections in libraries are > growing exponentially, the ranks of librarians trained for and assigned to > selecting and managing media collections have, if anything, diminished in > the last 30 years. (I go on about this at great lengths in the > introduction to Video Collection Development (Greenwood, 2002), so I won't > belabor it here)/> > The point is: many of us who came of professional age at the dawn of the > video revolution in the late 1970s are now of an age where we're pondering > the big R. I fret periodically about training for future media librarians; > I fret even more about the tendency of libraries to feel that format > specialization among professionals is either not needed or not affordable.> > ******> > OK, on another tact. In skimming over the latest issue of American > Libraries yesterday, I noticed at least THREE articles having to do with > intellectual freedom challenges to videos or to broadcast programming. I > would really like to see the Video Round Table consider getting more > involved with the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom as an advocacy > body. Seems to me that VRT could be doing a lot more to assert national > leadership in media matters. The Notables are one wonderful way that we've > moved in this direction. I think VRT could be doing more.> > Gary Handman> > > > At 08:23 AM 4/6/2005 -0500, you wrote:> >We have phased retirement by contract here at USF which I plan to do.> Anyone> >else have phased retirement at their institutions?> >> >Jerry> >> >> >_______________________________________________> >Videolib mailing list> >Videolib@library.berkeley.edu> >http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/videolib> > Gary Handman> Director> Media Resources Center> Moffitt Library> UC Berkeley> ghandman@library.berkeley.edu> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC> > ****> > "Movies are poems, a holy bible, the great mother of us."> --Ted Berrigan > > _______________________________________________> Videolib mailing list> Videolib@library.berkeley.edu> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/videolib>

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